Iterating Toward Openness

JULY 23, 2018

By definition, open educational resources (OER) are licensed in a manner that gives you permission to change, update, and improve them. Learning analytics, on the other hand, can provide great insight into where course materials – including OER – are not effectively supporting student learning.

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OER Learning Analytics Analysis Course 94

NeverEndingSearch

MAY 6, 2019

And what does it look like when the librarian, armed with a rich OER toolkit, regularly curates urgently needed, high-quality, flexible, no- or low-cost digital tools and content across the curriculum, expertly modeling that practice for the entire learning community?

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OER Future Ready Case Study Outcomes 80

Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The materials shared during those first years were totally random – essays, photos, technical documentation, etc. Of course innovation with OER didn’t actually stop with openly licensed traditional textbooks. OER have also been used as part of personalized, interactive courseware systems, too.

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Strategy OER Education Policies 129

Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

Among them, I’ve updated my site to include a dedicated FAQ on open educational resources (OER). The FAQ is a collaboration of many involved with the movement and includes an OER infographic , suitable for downloading and re-sharing. My thanks to EdSurge for highlighting its availability.

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EdTech OER E-rate Microsoft 170

Iterating Toward Openness

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Last week I posted the middle section of the presentation, How Generative AI Affects Open Educational Resources , in which I described how we need to move beyond narrow thinking about how generative AI impacts our work with traditional OER and begin thinking more broadly about the power generative OER.

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OER Accessibility Education Broadband 66

NeverEndingSearch

MAY 20, 2020

This effort will document how your pivoted practice positions you as an even more pivotal player. Here are several compelling reasons why, this is the year you must start documenting your impact. This is the perfect time to document the value of your curations. How have you led in curating and integrating OER?

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Report Adobe OER eBook 138

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The primary trends identified by the team were: adaptive learning, open education resources (OER), gamification and game-based learning, MOOCs, LMS and interoperability, mobile devices, and design.

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Trends Digital Learning Learning Secondary 215

eSchool News

DECEMBER 9, 2018

After reviewing instructional materials rated as Tier 1 standards-aligned resources by the Louisiana Department of Education, we decided to try Open Up Resources 6–8 Math , an open educational resource (OER) authored by Illustrative Mathematics (IM). In fall 2017, we formed teacher committees and solicited feedback.

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OER Common Core Instructional Materials Resources 111

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 2, 2014

You will discover a wide variety of materials including readings, OER (Open Education Resources), primary documents, textbooks, lessons, activities, interactives, videos, audios, and some great blog readings. OER Commons – What a wonderful place to find open educational resources.

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Study Classroom OER Education 166

More Verbs

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

The Digital Learning Specialists will play a critical role in developing and implementing these and other innovative programs, as well as assisting schools with Professional Learning, School Libraries, Maine State Library Network, District Technology Plans, AP4ALL (statewide online AP program), STEM OER Project, and others.

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Technology Digital Badges OER Learning 150

Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

Among them, I’ve updated my site to include a dedicated FAQ on open educational resources (OER). The FAQ is a collaboration of many involved with the movement and includes an OER infographic , suitable for downloading and re-sharing. My thanks to EdSurge for highlighting its availability.

EdTech 150

EdTech OER E-rate Microsoft 150

EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 7, 2018

Open Education Resources (OER). These are documents written by subject matter experts from across the globe on any sector and subject. A good example of this would be the usage of OERs by Sky Customer Service to train their employees. It saves time and effort, while also providing a better learning experience for users.

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MOOC Gamification OER Smartphone 127

Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2017

Reading a document or composing an essay on a phone with a cracked screen is frustrating, humiliating, and potentially error-enhancing, but my students say they do it anyway because the cost of repair can be expensive and timely. A cracked screen, however, is a burden shouldered entirely by students.

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Mobility OER Technology BYOD 104

Edsurge

MAY 6, 2018

I wish you wouldn’t pin all hope on OER or content marketplaces or playlists as curriculum solutions. To be sure, there are gold nugget lessons within the vast OER and marketplace libraries, but finding them is difficult and time-consuming. More filler than fire-starter. Quantity over quality. As a teacher, this is what you live for.

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EdTech OER Industry Study 125

Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 9, 2018

As the title of the document makes explicit, the framework aims to contribute to the conversation about the sustainability of OER: “Toward a Sustainable OER Ecosystem: The Case for OER Stewardship” It’s a valuable contribution to that conversation. I’m not sure that the document recognizes this.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

From detailing various funding sources to providing insights into statewide and regional partnerships and offering practical examples of cybersecurity training, the document is a must-read for everyone involved in helping districts improve their cybersecurity posture.

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Resources Microsoft Advocacy OER 105

NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 21, 2016

The authentic interdisciplinary text includes news articles, short stories, speeches, poems, historical documents and excerpts from classical literature, all selected to support the course of study for middle and high school, especially for English, social students, science.

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OER Common Core Facebook Strategy 40

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 21, 2016

We’ll document and publicly share what we’re doing. A toolkit for teachers will be made available at the end of the 2015-2016 school year as an OER (open education resources), allowing other teachers across the world to follow this method of quad engineering. “So This first project will be smaller.

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OER Social Media Classroom Industry 150

The Thinking Stick

JANUARY 18, 2024

I am proud to announce the first of many documents being released by the @waospi on guidance for K12 educators in the state of Washington. This is just the first of many documents that will be coming from the AI Committee that I am honored to be co-facilitating in doing this work. of Education , and Teachai just to name a few.

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OER UDL Training Industry 69

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2018

Among the report’s findings are that 91 percent of the administrators responding to the survey said that innovation “is stated as a priority in either their strategic or academic plans, or both documents.” By contrast, just 40 percent of survey respondents said they have a “dedicated budget for innovation.”

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Report Competency Based Learning OER Survey 96

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 29, 2018

RedHat published its technical documentation under the OPL. ” When a commercial publisher switches from using proprietary content to using OER in some of their products, the community’s reaction is largely, “What’s wrong with them? And yet, there were problems. I don’t trust them. Freeriders!

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OER Software Company Microsoft 120

ProfHacker

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Now Mike has published an OER textbook, Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers. For these daily tasks, student don’t need long lists of questions to think about while gazing at web documents. They need concrete strategies and tactics for tracing claims to sources and for analyzing the nature and reliability of those sources.

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Resources OER Social Media Exercises 89

Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

“We’re very committed to following the format of the previous NMC report,” says Noreen Barajas-Murphy, interim director of academic community programs, who led the completion of the document. “It Open educational resources (OER) have been included as key trends since 2013, for example.

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Report OER Trends Industry 73

Graphite Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Want to simplify how you communicate, collaborate, and share documents? Kami helps teachers convert documents into PDF files and share them with students. OER Commons. Every teacher should become familiar with open educational resources, or OERs. Google Classroom. Best of all, it's free.

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EdTech OER Tools Microsoft 66

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2020

There are articles, videos, PBL Units, rubrics, designer documents, and many more. OER Commons : ( [link] ) – Wonderful place to find lessons and blended learning ideas that can cover standards that fit into a PBL or just a single lesson. At The Center: Learning Goals, Key Knowledge, Understanding, Success Skills.

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Blended Learning Learning LMS STEM 180

Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 30, 2016

According to the document, “the recent steep declines in the e-learning industry essentially mean that the e-learning era is effectively over. market is the trend toward open and free educational resources, or OER. One headwind specific to the U.S. Since the U.S.

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Report E-rate OER LMS 70

Educational Technology Guy

JANUARY 12, 2015

srcid=0B6dF7rWxc-5aMGMyanRsMW5DbzQ&pid=explorer&efh=false&a=v&chrome=false&embedded=true Find Apps for Chromebook - great resource to find apps to use with Chromebooks [link] A great list of Apps and Extensions for Education https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xDrYNfAPlLY-2Y7kbL_ADBfVePYmREbNXXV_fyTh5LM/mobilebasic?pli=1

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Chromebook Google Edmodo Study 100

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 21, 2019

PDF documents. Curriki Algebra – This is an Open Education Resource (OER) Algebra course that consists of five units aligned to the Common Core. OER Commons Math – This is a large collection of online resources that are part of the open education resource field. It contains free printable posters that are 8.5?

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STEM Resources Learning OER 148

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Project Noah – Visit tool to explore and document wildlife and a platform to harness the power of citizen scientists everywhere. OER Commons Science – Check out this great resource that connects to hundreds of other amazing free resources. Check out all the science areas.

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STEM Resources Learning Conference 162

NeverEndingSearch

JULY 5, 2017

Curating OER. It often refers to the gathering and contextualizing of OER to replace expensive traditional texts and to include them in learning management systems. Clearly, curation is not only about OER. For one thing, not all OER are created equally good and not all commercial products are at all bad.

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OER Social Media Libraries eBook 46

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 23, 2016

Of course, there is still Flipped Learning, 1 to 1 Programs, Blended Learning, Maker Movements, Genious Hours, SAMR, Learning Targets, 21st Century Learning, the 4C’s, Personalised Learning, Digital Textbooks, and OER! Open Education Resources – Talk about big, this network brings together 44,129 OER tools for sharing curriculum.

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Resources OER Learning STEM 105

NeverEndingSearch

JULY 6, 2017

You can search for Open Educational Resources (OER) within Destiny Discover and immediately add them to your collections. We can work with as curricular teams to build instruction–connecting free web and OER content with content we purchase and adding our own documents–instruction, scaffolds, rubrics.

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OER Social Media Software Resources 40

NeverEndingSearch

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Your CSE could lead: AP US History students across multiple portals to the primary sources they need to create document-based questions. teachers to the best resources across the multiple OER portals. wax museum researchers to solid sources of biography. art students and their teachers to major museum sites.

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Google OER Resources Course 66

eSchool News

APRIL 4, 2016

Annual survey reveals more and more districts are turning to OER and other digital learning resources. Sixty-two percent of districts in a recent survey have a digital content and curriculum strategy, and more than half of those strategies (38 percent) include using Open Educational Resources (OER).

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Survey OER Digital Learning Strategy 40

Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 19, 2018

I think they have absolutely succeeded in creating a document that will provoke “a more nuanced and meaningful discussion about the individual and organizational practice of OER and openness in education and for learning.” ” I hope others will also take the time to engage it thoughtfully. (I Maybe change the title?

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OER Resources Tools Education 60

Bryan Alexander

JULY 20, 2017

Text question from Ed Finn: OER Game Changer – Moodle Community could separate it from Canvas and Blackboard who keep these types of sharing resources behind a wall. BryanAlexander @Moodler Are you aware of any learners using Moodle to create and document their own personal learning pathways? Thank you. .

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Moodle LMS OER Blackboard 79

Bryan Alexander

JULY 20, 2017

Text question from Ed Finn: OER Game Changer – Moodle Community could separate it from Canvas and Blackboard who keep these types of sharing resources behind a wall. BryanAlexander @Moodler Are you aware of any learners using Moodle to create and document their own personal learning pathways? Thank you. .

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Moodle LMS OER Blackboard 40